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Batgirl: Kevin Smith calls the cancellation of the Latina-led film an incredibly bad look

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Kevin Smith calls Warner Bros’s cancellation of Batgirl “an incredibly bad decision.”. Even though the $90m (£73.7m) shoot for the film was completed earlier this year, the studio announced there were no longer plans for the film to be released.

CEO David Zaslav explained why Batgirl wasn’t included: “We’ll wait until a film is ready before releasing it.”. The shocking news provoked much discussion among film fans, with many criticizing Warner Bros.

During a recent episode of Hollywood Babble-On, filmmaker Kevin Smith commented on Batgirl’s cancellation. Batgirl’s cancellation stung particularly since Leslie Grace had been set to play Barbara Gordon, a Latina actor.

“A Latina Batgirl movie being canceled is an incredibly bad look,” Smith said in the video. “Nobody’s gonna complain if the movie was a total rotten poop – I guarantee you that it wasn’t.” His next point was that Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the directors, would have made a quality film.

“Two of the directors of that movie directed episodes of Ms. Marvel, and it was a wonderful show, and they had more money to make Batgirl than they did for Ms Marvel.”

While El Arbi and Bilall Fallah released separate statements expressing their shock at the film’s cancellation, Leslie Grace said she felt blessed to have worked with such greats.

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